{"id":3247,"date":"2023-11-15T08:28:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T19:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=3247"},"modified":"2023-11-15T08:33:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T19:33:59","slug":"3247","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=3247","title":{"rendered":"Former Smiths Member Releases &#8220;Best of&#8221; and New Single"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>English singer, songwriter and guitarist Johnny Marr first achieved fame in the eighties as the guitarist and co-songwriter of\u00a0&#8220;The Smiths.&#8221; Since then, he has been a session musician and a member of\u00a0various bands, including &#8220;The Pretenders.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marr released his first solo album,\u00a0&#8220;<em>The Messenger<\/em>,&#8221; in 2013. His second solo album,\u00a0&#8220;<em>Playland<\/em>,&#8221; came in 2014, a third,\u00a0&#8220;<em>Call the Comet<\/em>,&#8221; in 2018 and the fourth, &#8220;Fever Dreams Pts 1-4,&#8221; in 2022. All four albums made the top 10 in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few weeks ago Marr released &#8220;<em>Spirit Power: The Best Of Johnny Marr<\/em>.&#8221; The collection includes a new single he wrote while touring with &#8220;The Killers&#8221; and &#8220;Blondie.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>Somewhere<\/em>&#8221; by Johnny Marr is new this week on RadiJohan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Johnny Marr - Somewhere (Official Video)\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/etdColw0Knk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English singer, songwriter and guitarist Johnny Marr first achieved fame in the eighties as the guitarist and co-songwriter of\u00a0&#8220;The Smiths.&#8221; Since then, he has been a session musician and a member of\u00a0various bands, including &#8220;The Pretenders.&#8221; Marr released his first solo album,\u00a0&#8220;The Messenger,&#8221; in 2013. His second solo album,\u00a0&#8220;Playland,&#8221; came in 2014, a third,\u00a0&#8220;Call the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[360],"class_list":["post-3247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-music","tag-johnny-marr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3247"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3251,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions\/3251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}